This has not been the best summer for the ladies, musically speaking. Not only was Lilith Fair totally lame, but it sold about four tickets and the Dallas date was canceled. The Hole tour was fun only if you like your former heroes hopped up on a double dose of…
We’re all familiar with the on field spectacle of professional football, but few know the struggles that go on behind the scenes of this beloved-but-brutal sport. All those years of hits and concussions can catch up with a player, which is why benefits and retirement packages have become such a…
When I was a kid, Aladdin on Ice and other live-esque shows dedicated to the various popular children’s movies of the day were a massive upgrade from your typical elementary school entertainment. They were an almost literal immersion into a fantasy world, the likes of which even the biggest IMAX…
There’s nothing funny about war… Depending, of course, on your frame of mind and who you’re talking to. An 11-year stint with the U.S. Air Force inspired Nathaniel Stroman, AKA Earthquake, to lead the life of a professional comedian. The quick-witted, brutally honest funny-man takes the stage stage Friday through…
A friend once conned us into watching The Last Kiss with Zach Braff and Rachel Bilson, assuring us that we’d love it. In short, Braff’s character impregnates his girlfriend, feigns a desire for commitment and hooks up with a younger girl before begging his baby mama for forgiveness, which she…
Some artists go soft in their old age, but at age 62, Marvin Lee Aday isn’t about to serve up the same old leftover Meat Loaf. After spinning a career out of the seven epic piano rockers and sweeping ballads on 1977’s Bat Out of Hell, the Dallas native turned…
We love Hatch. We’re not talking tax-evading, naked Richard Hatch–we’re talking hot Hatch chile roasted over an open flame and immediately thrown on a burger, diced into salsa or just straight shoved in mouth. The 15th Anniversary Hatch Chile Festival is in full swing at Central Market and this year,…
If you’ve ever received a red card for inappropriate gestures during a friendly game of charades, then you might want to try your luck on the stage at Trees this Thursday, where your perversion could be rewarded in the preliminaries for the 2010 Air Sex World Championships. “Air sex” is…
Let’s just face it; Texas heat can be brutal. Don’t even think about waiting until the sun goes down to take that long awaited walk outside with your pup, it’s still 95 degrees out there. No more midday bike rides, casual jogs or trips to the dog park. So what…
In a culture where it’s hardly worth the effort to bleep out profanity on ABC Family, the only time you hear “taboo” anymore may be in reference to the Black Eyed Peas. But upon mention of “depression,” conversations can go awkwardly silent. In a memoir that Publisher’s Weekly calls “inspiring”…
When we first spotted the movie poster for Tim Burton’s remake of the classic 1951 film Alice in Wonderland, a gravitational pull drew us to Johnny Depp’s orange Mad Hatter hair like a fly to the blue glow of a bug zapper. And after months of anticipation, we sat back…
If most movies are true depictions of the world, as we’ve always believed, then knocks on the head should be accompanied by amnesia, the acquiring of magical powers and elaborate dream sequences a la The Big Lebowski. Unfortunately, when it happened to us, we just got a little sleepy and…
The Great Recession has spurred a spike in the popularity of do-it-yourself projects. Learn to maximize your home’s potential at the Fort Worth Home and Garden Market. From indoors to outdoors, gardens to pools, the show promises a smorgasbord of decorating and remodeling ideas. Sit in on how-to workshops for…
Summertime is the perfect time for family reunions. Standing around sweating with some uncles who are the type of men you generally avoid in public; enduring conversations with friends-of-the-family who make it clear by lunch they’re just here for the free booze; you get the idea. But then there’s Rachel…
Previously, our fair Frisco RoughRiders have maintained a fairly even win-loss record with the Midland RockHounds this season. The Riders were the first half division winners, but recently their Ls seem to be creeping up in number. This is concerning as I see it, because there are just way more…
The two-part tale of French gangster-showman Jacques Mesrine is as densely packed and serially rambling as a well-trafficked Wikipedia entry. Director Jean-François Richet, who whipped up not-bad mayhem in his Assault on Precinct 13 remake, devotes so much time to tallying his subject’s career milestones and highlights that any insight…
When they’re up and dancing, A Bollywood Lysistrata, a new piece by Level Ground Arts in their new home at KD Studio Theatre, feels as fresh and salty-sweet as the cool Indian yogurt drink known as lassi. If only they could have danced all night. It’s the standing-around-talking parts that…
The Switch is a loose adaptation of a Jeffrey Eugenides story called “Baster,” published in The New Yorker in 1996 and deemed fit for inclusion in the 2001 best-of anthology Wonderful Town. Last week, when asked by the New Yorker’s book blog about the film—which stars Jennifer Aniston and Jason…
Midway through Lottery Ticket, a teen-comedy-cum-wish-fulfillment fantasy, the movie’s hero, Kevin Carson, goes on a spending spree. The holder of a $370 million lottery ticket that he can’t cash in until after the July 4 holiday, Kevin accepts a $100,000 loan from a local gangster and proceeds to spend it…
With their wrinkly faces, curlicue tails, labored breathing and underbite, pugs are hilarious little dogs. As for Pugs the comedian, he’s at least got a good start with a funny name–as do “Big” Dick Hunter and someone who simply goes by Ammos. The three have more in common than goofy…
There is a big problem with words like “biennial.” How can a word mean both “every two years” and “lasting for two years?” This sort of lazy word defining is what really gets my goat. Come on, English, you’re better than that! If, for example, you attend the biennial exhibition…
Every year The Dallas Opera puts together a summer-long shindig to prep everyone for its upcoming season. This year’s Baritones & Beachballs will get local opera fans on course for the 2010-2011 season, Dangerous Desires, which will include a production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, the tale of everyone’s favorite…
